**We last left Adam falling down a ditch outside the Shadowloo base, sitting in the cluthes of a man who looked strikingly like a certain Street Fighter we all know and... fear.******

Adam sat up in shock. "Who...who are you?!"

The tall man wore only a pair of shorts and an eye patch over his right eye. "It's none of your concern."

Adam found himself asking, "Isn't it cold in only those shorts?" before he could stop himself.

The taller man shook his head. "Do you want to return to your entourage or not?"

Adam nodded hesitantly. "Aren't you a member of this gang?"

The large man sighed. "I am, but not by choice. I would prefer to see Bison burn. But in order to do that, I will need all the help I can get."

Adam got to his feet and brushed himself off. "Well, I lost sight of my partners when I fell off of that cliff. They should still be up there somewheres."

The man nodded. "Follow me. If we take this path, it will eventually catch up with the higher up road."

Adam had to break into a light jog just to keep up with the man's strides. The walk was quiet and uneventful, until Adam's guide motioned for him to stop. Adam quietly tiptoed up behind him and peeked ahead.

"What's wrong?" he whispered.

"Guards. Two of them."

Adam grinned. "We should be able to take them no problem."

The man shook his head. "Absolutely not. They are being forced to work here. Bison holds their families captive in exchange for cooperation. They don't need to be hurt."

Adam blinked several times. The man in front of him was a lot more compassionate than he appeared. Finally he realized that they needed to do something. Taking action, he turned back to the taller man and said, "So what do we do now?"

The man held his hand up in a signal for silence and walked up to them. Adam couldn't hear the muted conversation, but when his ally came back, both guards walked off of the path.

"What happened?"

The man motioned for Adam to follow him and walked ahead wordlessly. Adam resumed his jog and caught up with him.

"Well? How did you get the guards to let us by?"

"I simply told them to take a break."

Now Adam was worried. Who exactly am I walking with here?

There was the sound of hushed voices a little further ahead, and the pair stopped to assess the situation. As the sounds grew closer, Adam recognized the voices. 'That's Chun and Charlie!' He turned around to tell his helper, but there was no one behind him. 'That's.... weird... i wonder who that was?...'

"Well no reason to wonder at the moment..." He finally muttered before taking off at a run to meet his 'friends'. He gave a quick wave when they entered his view, hoping they wouldn’t mistake him for an enemy. He let out a sigh when the two jogged up to him.

Charlie gave him a critical eye, looking for injuries first and foremost before fixing the boy with a glare that Chun-li imitated. "Good, your alright." He began in a monotone.
"However, your klutz attack nearly cost us the mission. From now on I want you where Chun-li and I can see you at ALL times, this whole area is crawling with Shadowloo agents,"

Don’t I know it. Adam thought to himself, nodding as Charlie continued. "At any moment you could have been killed. Do you know who we could find at any moment in this area? Shadowloo's big four. Vega, Balrog, Sagat, and M. Bison himself. Anyone of them could easily end your life on a WHIM. You might be able to handle the enforcers but you would have NOTHING on them."

Adam didn't look into Charlie's eyes as he mumbled his apology, failing as well to meet Chun-li's, he kept his head down as they continued the walk. Wait... He started thinking, after all he was currently unable to bring himself to speak to them so he had time to think. Sagat...that name's familiar... At that moment realization hit him.
WAIT! That’s one of those guys Sakura kept talking about. Sagat was Thailand's martial arts champion...'The Muay Thai Emperor'... After that he began trying to develop a
mental picture from one of those Sakura had shown him of the greatest warriors in the world.
HOLY CRAP! That was Sagat! He mentally yelled, keeping his discovery to himself.

"Well, here we are..." Chun-li said, a grim smile on her face. "I can finally avenge my father."

Charlie gave a curt nod. "We'll observe for five minutes, to insure they don’t send any search parties for us. If the coast is clear we'll enter and plant the bombs."

"Wait!" Adam broke in at last causing his older counterparts to glare at him.

"What now?" Chun-li asked in what seemed to become her default tone when dealing with the young man. Exasperation and forced patience.

"If you plant those bombs...the people inside will be killed..." Charlie and Chun-li gave him a look he didn’t quite identify but nodded. "We...we cant kill them. They're innocent people."

"They work for Shadowloo." Chun-li said acidly.

"But what about those who don’t work of their own will? If Bison controls this kind of area, and is so powerful how many people work for him only because they fear the consequences if they don’t? What about those people?"

"This is a war." Charlie sighed. "And in all wars, no matter how good the good guys, or how bad the bad guys innocent people ALWAYS get hurt. I'm sorry, but that’s how it is."

"If innocent people always get hurt from both side's tactics what makes the good guys better then the bad guys?" Adam asked bitterly.

"BECAUSE WE DONT KILL WANTONLY!" Chun-li virtually screamed, grabbing the young man by his collar. "You wanted to come with us! You wanted to have the thrill of adventure! This isn’t adventure! Its murder, its revenge, its punishment.
Murder...murder of innocents...revenge for all the innocents Bison has murdered, and punishment for so many unatoneable crimes. This is what your 'adventure' amounts to. The ONLY reason we do this..." Chun-li was gradually pulling the boy closer, her pitch rising as she continued. "Is because someone has to. We're soldiers. This is what we do, we do the
unthinkable, the things no one else can do, and then slink into the shadows, to mourn our actions for our lives. We do it because if we don’t, then monsters like Hitler...like Bison...then monsters like them go unchecked. This IS the
only way to stop them. And now...now its too late to turn back. If you try to stop us, we will do what we must."

It seemed at this point the full meaning of the mysterious woman's words was hitting him. ' "your old life will come to a quick end" this is what she meant...I’ve got to choose now...what am I going to do...' After a long minute
of deliberation in which he dared not even breathe he finally
nodded. "Alright...I’ll...I’ll help any way I am able too. If this has to be done...I...wont hide from it. I'll face it like a man, and I’ll give my help."

Charlie gave a curt nod turning his attention back to the base. "We begin infiltration in thirty seconds."

Chun-li followed suit, however she got onto her feet a bit, crouching low, the muscles of her legs straining against the tight, thin fabric of her track suit. They were both holding their bags, which Adam now realized had not been full of
clothes and supplies...well yes they had ONE supply. The bombs.

"Lets rock and roll." Charlie finally said.